Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Red Badge of Courage

I recently finished illustrating the cover and interiors for Stephen Crane's classic novel, The Red Badge of Courage.

The book will be available January 2010 through Magic Wagon, a division of the ABDO Group www.abdopub.com, or your educational wholesaler.



I decided to take the poses myself, and have a friend shoot me for photo reference. I don't usually do this, but I felt an urge to do so for this project. It was fun getting to play the characters.



These are a some of the interior illustrations I did for the book. I inked these with a sumi pen.





24 comments:

Jenea said...

It is Awesome!!! I like all your project!

Jack Jittkaroonrus said...

All i can say is 4 letters,

"D" "O" "P" "E" son!!! i really liked how it came out!

RYAN said...

Really cool man. I love how you posted your ref. It's great to see how you edited things to make readability easier. Awesome.

Helen Chen said...

Wow awesome work chris! I'm a little bummed i never had you as a teacher, but i still like seeing your updates.

C.B. Canga said...

helen: it would have been my pleasure to have you in my class. you're an amazing artist.

Say said...

Hi Chris~~How are you?
I really love the color...It seems you started another book...kk a lot of work!!! I'm excited to see your work!!

Mirella said...

very good work!! I love the studios^_^

Pagas said...

Great work!

Ciao
Paolo

Frank said...

wow, really cool.

RAWLS said...

3 thumbs up my friend!! These illos look fantastic!!

Oscar Rosales said...

Great stuff C.B.! Congrats!

Eric Barclay said...

Your work always impresses. Really great composition and characters. Love the way you handled the interior pages, too. Just outstanding.

Kat said...

wow, congratulations, it looks really great!

Quincy Boyd said...

I'm really diggin these! I love the civil war era costumes and you did an excellent job illustrating them! Good job!!! Oh, and nice refs too!!

Manoj Sinha said...

Great experiment and result is clear. Like the idea.
I just uploaded Ronaldinho's caricature. Need your valuable suggestions and comments as always.

Em said...

sweet stuff, chris! really like the sumi-pen works. gotta get me one of those...

Kay Aker said...

Leaves one struck with awe! Classic and gorgeous!

Florencia Bini said...

Wow!!!
Really great and hard work here, love the farmer bellow and the cover art for "A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons".
I'll be passing by more often.
saludos:)

Aaron said...

Great work C ! I learn so much just visiting your blog.

Daniel Valadez said...

great stuff chris!

Brandon T Pike said...

Nice work Chris!! These came out great!

Simon Scales said...

Hey Chris...nice stuff man!!

crylic said...

Man, these illos are fantastic.

Outstanding work as usual.

justdoodleit said...

Brilliant studies and the final illustration is awesome my friend!